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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Cloud Pak for Data

Allow Replication of a Subset of Columns from Db2 for z/OS using Db2 Data Gate

Allow customers to define which columns of a Db2 for z/OS table should be replicated to Db2 Data Gate, reducing storage requirements, replication overhead, and unnecessary data exposure. Today, when a table is added to Db2 Data Gate using the SYSP...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow 'watching' of single terms/rules for changes

Our key users would like to know if certain terms/rules are edited by other people. For example: In our model we have high (NBT) and low level (CBT) terms, which are connected. Different organisations and persons are responsible for the categories...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Improve the search and filtering of the catalogs

Currently user feedback is that they can't use the search to get the assets they are interested in. IBM suggestion is to use global search, which does work better, but it is crude also. You should improve the search itself PLUS introduce filtering...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

IBM Software Hub – Expand cpd-cli OADP Online Backup Capability to Store Backups (Metadata + Volumes) Outside OCP Cluster / ODF Storage

Summary: We are requesting a product enhancement for IBM Software Hub to expand the cpd-cli OADP online backup capability so that backups — including both metadata and volume data — can be stored outside the OpenShift cluster / ODF storage, rather...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Storage volumes: show actual used space (not only allocated) and allow PVC expansion from the platform UI

As a platform administrator you can use the Total resource usage → Volumes page to keep storage under control. The table lists every PVC with its provisioned capacity ("PVC size"), phase, service, service instance and access mode, but it only show...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enhanced Enterprise Notifications and Alerting Integration

Organizations require proactive operational visibility and seamless integration with enterprise IT Service Management (ITSM) platforms to effectively monitor, support, and maintain platform operations. Currently, notifications are typically limite...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS) Instead of Mandatory IBM Cloud Object Storage

Many organizations have already invested in enterprise-approved storage platforms and have stringent requirements around data residency, security, regulatory compliance, operational governance, and cost management. Requiring data to be stored in I...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Support External Enterprise Credential Management Integration

Many organizations use centralized enterprise credential management solutions to securely manage, rotate, audit, and govern credentials across their technology landscape. Currently, external credential management integration is not supported, resu...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Restrict Data Visibility in IBM SaaS Asset Preview, Profiling, Visualization, and Catalog

Organizations often onboard sensitive, regulated, or confidential datasets into IBM SaaS environments for governance, lineage, metadata management, and data product publication. While business and technical metadata should remain discoverable, the...

Add lineage support for the IBM DB2 for z/OS connector

We request that IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) add support for scanning and generating lineage for connections created with the IBM DB2 for z/OS connector. Using the connector and a non-personal ID (NPID), we can successfully connect to DB2 for z/OS,...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted